The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from illinois reserves. The gentleman from missouri is recognized. Mr. Graves i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from missouri reserves. The gentleman from illinois is recognized. I yield one minute to the gentleman from rhode island, mr. Cicilline. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from providence, rhode recognized for one minute. Mr. Cicilline thank you, mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Infrastructure is stuck in the 1950s, and it doesnt have to be. Fact, past time for congress to bring our bridges, roads, schools into the 21st century. American people gave democrats control of the u. S. House last year because we for the people. Higher wages, lower costs, and ooting out corruption in washington. The moving forward act delivers on that promise. It creates millions of time when jobs at a they are needed most. More than 40 million unemployment claims have been this since the start of pand
Disease, who is at the risk of getting the disease, meaning if you are negative youre still at risk of getting the disease. Andra range of Public Health efforts call surveilling, understanding the prevalence of the disease in the community, that, coupled with knowing how many people are sick, and how toey people die who allow us ultimately open up our community and society back to near normal. It also tells us how close we are to herd immunity, which is the Public Health principle that says that if i have the disease, you will not get the disease. We know that testing is essential to be adequate for the number of people we have in our country. We know that we cannot do Contact Tracing without an adequate number of people and an adequate number of tests. Knowing the test results will ,llow us to target resources quarantine on people who may have been exposed, and to adequately treat people who get sick. I want to point out that the fastest way to be safe at home and away from home is to
Joining us today, and good morning from the west coast. I know it is afternoon on the east coast, but good morning from where i am. Thank you all for being part of this conversation today. What ive heard constantly from people in my state, and i know this is true from every one of us on this call is where are the tests . It has been a constant refrain from the beginning until today, and finally, getting an answer a clear, reliable 1 is critical if we are going to safely go back to Something Like normal in our country. Today we will be talking about our roadmap to rapidly expand testing. To start, we will have an Expert Opinion about why this is so important. I want to thank dr. Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public health association, and he will get us started today. Thank you very much for having me today. Let me point out that today, we have addressed the disease by using two important efforts. One, we had a Massive Public education effort to tell people what the r
Begin to open questions about what does that mean, what are the risks inherent in that absolutely, rick, this is an issue that markets are paying attention to but again, both the commercial paper funding, if we get a facility, a similar way of trying to provide liquidity to markets and make sure companies can keep the doors open would certainly be steps forward to make sure that corporate sector doesnt experience too much stress as a result of this excellent thank you for your thoughts. Were running light on time and we will have you back as this proce progresses back to you. Good tuesday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla here at post nine of the new york stock exchange, Morgan Brennan at headquarters, jon fortt heads our coverage from the floor of the nyse compared to yesterday, relatively stable action no Circuit Breakers taken today, did lose 20 k briefly. Lets get to bob pisani. Not only is it a no, sir cut breakers but the volume is lower and the key event this week is going to be the
The committee will come to order. The company is leaving today to receive testimony on confronting the coronavirus, without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee and recess at any point. Today the committee is meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are justifiably concerned about the virus. It is spread around the world and claimed lives of thousands. Understandably, there questions about how how it may affect them, their loved ones in their communities. Our concern how concerned we need to be about the virus. It is most at risk. What can communities do to prepare. What can americans do to protect themselves and their families. What is the fellow government doing. What more should be doing. When might we have a vaccine or other treatment. My constituents are looking to the federal government for leadership, guidance and expertise and i share my colleagues constituents two. I am concerned that the Tru